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Marathon Weekly Editorial: Bring a Guest & Come to the Fest!
By Jason Koler | Mar 05, 2010
I like butter, beer, seafood, sun, and most of all – having fun with my friends and family. The Original Marathon Seafood Festival returns to the Community Park next weekend and with the tons of Florida lobster, stone crabs, and conch fritters come some 18,000 visitors who will converge onto Marathon for taste of the world’s freshest seafood. Best part about the Fest? All your friends will be there.
Voted “Best Local Festival” for the third year in a row by the people of Marathon, the festival began with a posse of salty, local fishermen coming together for a neighborhood cookout.
With the men dragging coolers into the field of what is now Publix and Bank of America, the wives would bring their favorite desserts and a gigantic celebration of shellfish and togetherness would ensue.
Key Colony Beach Days
By Matt Standle | Mar 06, 2010
Folks from far and wide will come out to help the little City of Key Colony Beach celebrate its 53rd birthday on Sunday, March 7.
The best part about the event besides the free parking, live music, and chance to win $500? The directions; simply head down Sadowski Causeway and turn right!
Marathon Neighbor of the Week: Mayor Ginger Snead
By Blair Shiver | Mar 06, 2010
color photos courtesy of MarathonJournal.US
While working for a physical therapy group in Tampa, Ginger received a temporary assignment to relocate south and open Fishermen’s Hospital’s outside physical therapy clinic. She and her daughter Nikki packed their bags for nine months in Marathon, and as Ginger explained, “I guess I just forgot to leave!”
Four years later, the pair would spend their weekends driving up and down the streets of Marathon in search of homes for sale. Armed with only three major requirements – two bathrooms, a ground level home located on the water – the search took quite some time.
It turned out to be a complete fluke that they finally pinpointed a property that met their criteria.
Key West Neighbor of the Week: John Woodson
By Josie Koler | Mar 05, 2010
Chief Building Officer, City of Key West
Photos by Josie Koler
The Key West Weekly bumped into the Chief Building Officer for the city innocently enough during an inspection of the contracting work for our new southernmost office.
Key West Weekly Editorial: Oh My Goff Lands in Key West
By Josie Koler | Mar 05, 2010
Guest Columnist is no Small Potatoes
The term is called enterprise reporting, and is a theme on which The Weekly Newspapers is now based. Tedd simply demanded we think. He pushed us out of the newsroom and onto the streets. We pounded the pavement and were trained to ask the questions where, “they may not like you, but they will respect you.”
We carried out his consultant theory. Enterprise, enterprise, enterprise. We were 26-years old and feared by the chamber of commerce, the mayor, our state senators, and anyone who dared place themselves in public office.
Think of it as The Blue Paper on TV with sound bites, video, sweet graphics, and young reporters. He briefed us before we went out and taught us how to treat each piece. (Minus tasteless info reserved by any respectable journalist for family court.)
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Battle in the Bay: Boat Festiva
By Josie Koler | Mar 06, 2010
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Islamorada Business Spotlight: Who has the Biggest…Printer of Them All?
By Blair Shiver | Mar 06, 2010
Local sign shop expands operation…and your visibility
Eyecatchers Signs in Islamorada has recently expanded, adding more graphic designers and a large-format roll printer.
Eyecatchers can take care of an entire project from the beginning stage of taking the photos all the way to the final print stage, but Hayes added that many companies may already have high-resolution photos on-hand that they have used in their other promotional items such as brochures and websites.
Marathon Island Eats: Fish Tales Market & Eatery Rightfully Earns “Best Fish Sandwich”
By Blair Shiver | Mar 06, 2010
There aren’t many fresh seafood markets where you’d imagine sitting down for a meal, but it’s easy to forget about the fresh filets nestled on a bed of ice behind the display counter when you step through the door at Fish Tales.
After 23 years of owning and operating the well-known Grassy Key Dairy Bar, George Eigner, his wife Jackie and brother Johnny sold the outpost with their sights set on retirement.
Unsatisfied “doing nothing” the trio purchased the former Island City Fish Market just west of the Vaca Cut Bridge. Two months of remodeling and revamping revealed the new Fish Tales Market & Eatery in late 2002.
Keys Disease: Wild Kingdom 2010 – Snake in the (River of) Grass
By John Bartus | Mar 06, 2010
... The late 20th and early 21st Centuries have brought new communities of invasive exotic species to South Florida and the Keys. Everyone loves those cute fun-loving iguanas, especially hibiscus growers on Key Colony Beach. So as not to feel left out, Grassy Key got its own invasive pest, the Gambian pouch rat. They make great handbags. (That was a joke.) And if your average size roaches and “palmetto bugs” weren’t bad enough, we have a population of the giant tropical Cuban Death’s Head cockroach. They grow up to 2-1/2” long, are yellowish-brown, have a black head-like shape on their upper backs, and people who are into such things actually keep them as pets. I am not making this up. ...
